SimpliVity CLI basic commands

During my SimpliVity PoC I created a lot of VMs, cloned and migrated them. It is much easier doing this task over the SimpliVity CLI. Here is a small guide – a 101 – for some basic tasks that during testing helped me a lot:

About the colors of the commands:orange means fixed commandsgreen means values, you can change at your own needs

CLI Access

You can access the SimpliVity OmniStack Command Line Interface (CLI) in two ways:

Possibility 1 (SimpliVity user

host:

IP / DNS name of the OVC (SimpliVity OmniStack Virtual Controller)

username:

svtcli

password:

simplicity

after login type:

svt-session-start

Possibility 2 (vCenter credentials)

host:

IP / DNS name of the OVC (SimpliVity OmniStack Virtual Controller)

username:

vCenter credentials (ex. administrator@vsphere.local)

password:

your password

after login type:

nothing is required to type (session is automatically started)

List of all commands

You can check the manual

you can write svt- and hit tab

Useful commands

Here some useful commands during my PoC. (You can follow each after another)